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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • French, German, and Dutch : from a personal name formed with the Germanic elements ragin ‘counsel’ + hari, heri ‘army’.
  • German : topographic name for someone living at the edge of a field or wood, from Middle High German rein ‘edge’, ‘embankment’.

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